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to this fullness.
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I arrived here yesterday
and have been thinking of writing ever since
but it didn't happen until now.
Forgive the delay though even a single day's delay
is no small delay!
What shall I say about the return journey?
It was very blissful.
I kept sleeping, and you were with me.
It appeared I had left you behind but actually you
were still with me.
This is the being-together that is so real that it
cannot be divided.
Physical nearness is not nearness, there can be no
union on that level, only an unbridgeable gulf, but
there is another nearness which is not of the body, and
its name is love.
Once gained it is never lost.
Then no separation exists despite vast distances in
the visible world.
If you can arrive at this distancelessness with
even one other it can be found with everybody.
One is the door, the all, the goal.
The beginning of love is through ONE, the end is
ALL.
The love that unites you with everything, with
nothing excluded, I call religion, and the love that
stops ANYWHERE I call sin.
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I received your letter;
I have been waiting for it ever since I returned.
But how sweet it is to wait!
Life itself is a waiting!
Seeds wait to sprout,
rivers to reach the ocean.
What does man wait for?
He too is the seed for some tree,
a river for some ocean.
Whoever looks deep inside
finds that a longing for the endless and boundless
is his very being,
and whoever recognizes this
begins his journey towards God
because who can be thirsty and not look for water?
This has never happened and never will!
Where there is longing,
there is thirst for attainment.
I want to make everyone aware of this thirst.
I want to convert everyone's life into a waiting.
The life that has turned into a waiting for God
is the true life.
All other ways of life are just a waste, a
disaster.
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Love.
I
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